Re: Bibliography, unicode strings, @ELECTRONIC, sorting and bibtex

["Schmitz Thomas A." <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Sep 18, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com> wrote:
> 
> This doesn't work, either:
> 
> \setupbibtex       [database=sample]
> \setuppublications [alternative=apa, criterium=cite, sorttype=author]
> \starttext
>  \cite[hh2010a]
>  \cite[Eijkhout1991]
>  \placepublications
> \stoptext
> 
This works for me, I get Eijkhout sorted before Hagen.

> 
> I'm aware of that. So it basically boils down to the fact that
> bibliographies are not popular among ConTeXt users (including Hans)
> and therefore much functionality is not properly implemented or
> cared for. And BibTeX is used since it understands the semantics of
> bib files, although a pure ConTeXt/Lua solution would be possible.
> Without BibTeX this functionality would be missing since no one is
> willing to implement a parser for .bib databases.
> 
> If I only had time…

Yes, had we but world enough and time… Anyway, Hans began playing with transforming bibtex to xml and loading this. There is no user interface yet, but if you want to see what's possible, have a look at bibl-bib.lua and bibl-tst.lua

Thomas
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